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Every time I play a sound, my system produces a loud popping noise in my headphones. Playback is perfectly fine, but about 3 seconds after playback finished, there is another popping sound. The noise is similar to that when switching the sample rate, albeit not as aggressive.
To me it seems like Windows is putting the DAC in some sort of idle state or power saving feature when there is no signal.
I've tried the following solutions, I found over the internet, to no avail:
-set minimum CPU power state to 100% (was at 100% already)
-uninstall Intel Rapid Storage Technology (wasn't installed in the first place)
-edit registry entries as shown below
(I set all the repititions of these entries to 0 as well, although my entries were BINARY and not DWORD entries(?))
-find registry entry for "SetIdlePowerManagement" and set it to 0
Nothing seems to work, except keeping a media player open at 0 volume (which seems to keep the driver busy with bits of zeros?).
My setup is a Topping D10 Balanaced into a Topping L30. EQapo is active on the system.
Signal path is USB->D10->TRS to RCA->L30 (negative on the TRS disconnected).
Maybe @JohnYang1997 might know a solution, although this seems like a Windows issue to me...
To me it seems like Windows is putting the DAC in some sort of idle state or power saving feature when there is no signal.
I've tried the following solutions, I found over the internet, to no avail:
-set minimum CPU power state to 100% (was at 100% already)
-uninstall Intel Rapid Storage Technology (wasn't installed in the first place)
-edit registry entries as shown below
(I set all the repititions of these entries to 0 as well, although my entries were BINARY and not DWORD entries(?))
-find registry entry for "SetIdlePowerManagement" and set it to 0
Nothing seems to work, except keeping a media player open at 0 volume (which seems to keep the driver busy with bits of zeros?).
My setup is a Topping D10 Balanaced into a Topping L30. EQapo is active on the system.
Signal path is USB->D10->TRS to RCA->L30 (negative on the TRS disconnected).
Maybe @JohnYang1997 might know a solution, although this seems like a Windows issue to me...
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